Roof Bolter fatality at Chetopa (Drummond Company, Inc.), AL, June 13, 1994

AT APPROX. 10:40 THEY WERE COMPLETING PINNING AND INSTALLING LINE CURTAIN IN THE FACE OF #3 RIGHT ENTRY. I.NAME WAS PUSHING UP LOOSE COAL WITH DIESEL SCOOP IN THE FACE OF #4 RIGHT ENTRY. ON CO MPLETING PUSHING UP IN #4 RIGHT, I.NAME BACKED HIS SCOOP UP TO THE OUTBY CROSSCUT IN #3 AND #4 AND TRAMMED ACROSS TO THE #2 RT OPEN LAST CROSS CUT. HE TRAMMED HIS SCOOP INTO THE SAME CROSSCUT

Activity at time of incident

Set Or Remove Brattice

Subunit / location

UNDERGROUND

Underground location

INBY PERMANENT SUPPORT

Accident type

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Source of injury

UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES

Nature of injury

FRACTURE,CHIP

Body part affected

LEG, MULTIPLE PARTS

Total mining experience

21 years

Experience at this mine

4 years

Experience in this job

2 years

Degree of injury

FATALITY

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